A short history of ancient Egypt: The Unification - The pyramid builders - The growth of the middle class, the decline of central power and the conquest of the Hyksos - Building an empire - The rule of the foreigners - The Hellenists
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A Short History
of
Ancient Egypt

A Map of Ancient Egypt, Bowen, 1740 AD

Contents

Dynasties I and II: The Unification

The Bull Palette

The Narmer Palette

Herodotus on Menes

Dynasties III to XI: From the first pyramid builders to the beginning of the Middle Kingdom

The subjugation of Nubia

The Famine Stele (The famine referred to : ca.2660 BCE)

Herodotus on Khufu (ca.2585-2566 BCE)

Herodotus on Khafre (ca.2558-2532 BCE)

Herodotus on Menkaure (ca.2532-2514 BCE)

The Campaigns of Pepi I (ca.2313-2279) in Southern Canaan

Sixth dynasty tomb inscription

The Instructions of Merikare (ca.2200 BCE)

The end of the Old Kingdom

The biography of Tefibi (9/10th dynasty)

The inscriptions of Kheti (Akhtoy), son of Tefibi (9/10th dynasty)

The inscriptions of Kheti (Akhtoy), son of Sit (9/10th dynasty)

Dynasties XII to XVII: The growth of the middle class, the decline of central power and the conquest of the Hyksos

Asiatics in Egyptian Household Services

Herodotus on Amenemhet III (1817-1772 BCE)

The Semna stelae of Senusret III

Herodotus on Sesostris (perhaps Senusret II or Ramses II)

Manetho on the Hyksos

Kamose Inscription

The autobiography of Ahmose, son of Abana

Description of Asiatic life from the Tale of Sinuhe

Dynasties XVIII to XX: The reassertion of Egyptian power and the building of an empire

The Tempest Stele of Ahmose I

The priests of Amen-Re and the Theban kings

Marriage as a tool of foreign politics

Hatshepsut's (ca.1498-1483 BCE) Inscription on the Hyksos

Tombs of the Noblemen

The Asiatic Campaigns of Thutmose III (ca.1482 BCE)

The battle of Megiddo (ca.1482 BCE)

An Egyptian account of the battle of Megiddo (ca.1482 BCE)

Thutmose III: The Napata Stele

The Asiatic campaigns of Amenhotep II

The Semna stela of the viceroy Merimose

Two marriages of Amenhotep III

The Amarna Letters

A Letter from Kadashman Enlil of Babylon to Amenhotep III

A Letter from the King of Babylon to the King of Egypt

Burnaburiash trying to get more gold from Akhenaten

Burnaburiash asking for more gold

Letter from a princess

A Letter from Tushratta, king of Mitanni

A Letter from Tushratta loaning a statue of the goddess Shauskha to Amenhotep III

A Letter from Yabitiri to Amenhotep III

A Letter from Tushratta wishing Akhenaten good health

Letters from Suppiluliuma to Akhenaten

Letters from the king of Alasiya

Letters from Ashur-Uballit

A Letter from Abdu-Heba of Jerusalem

A Letter from Shuwardata of Keilah

Another Letter from Abdu-Heba

Letters by Rib-Addi of Biblos

Letters by Biridiya of Megiddo

Letter from Labayu of Shechem

Letter from Yapahu of Gezer

Letter from the ruler of Acco

Letter from Abi-Milku, king of Tyre

Letter from Pharaoh to Endaruta of Akshapa

Letter from Pharaoh to Milkilu of Gezer

Letters from Aziru to his brother Khai concerning Hittite incursions, to the pharaoh and to Dudu